The resilience of the Gabonese resistance has completely taken the Ali Bongo regime by surprise, to the point where this regime does not understand how it could extinguish the fire of this resistance. Why are the successful regime’ strategies of 1990, 1993, 1998, 2005 and even 2009, unsuccessful today?

Dear readers, simply because the 2016 resistance maintains a healthy independence from the political parties and those who embody them.

Indeed, in the past, resistance movements have always been embodied by specific political parties and leaders representing them. Remember the Morena in the 80s, the Bucherons in the 90s, the UGP in the 2000s; the Gabonese people followed the guiding line of politicians and political parties, to the point that it was enough for the regime to make a deal with these politicians to demobilize the resistance and the trick worked.

After 2009, after the performance of André Mba Obame who demonstrated that one could be politically effective in Gabon without a political party; and after 2016 as Jean Ping is demonstrating the same thing; the Gabonese people have understood that resistance could be done ideologically and individually, without waiting for instructions from anyone.

Against this resistance movement, Ali Bongo continues to operate like Omar of the same name, that is to say by trying to corrupt people and intimidate them. But he goes from failure to failure because the resistance is not centralized. When René Ndemezo'Obiang comes to Paris to corrupt the resistance, yes he will have some takers, but his action will only be a grain of sand in the desert, because the corrupted will be replaced immediately by others more determined resistants .

Dear readers, look at what happened with theis so called dialogue. They invited a number of eager dialoguers, made them promises of appointment, picked within the opposition with the intent of breaking the resistance. But at the finish, this resistance is stronger today than ever. Why? Because we resist individually and not centrally. It is a resistance without a precise leader because we are all leaders and when a movement is decentralized, it becomes metastatic and unstoppable. We are at this stage. No one can make us stop what we are doing.

English version Dear compatriots, Your dialogue begins on March 28, we are told. Have fun, the food will certainly be excellent and the drinks as well; but especially, the per diem will have to be significant because you would not go for nothing! We would just like, right now, to remind you of some principles; for when we will expose them to you after your dialogue, which will be a failure, do not say to us: "I did not know!" On democracy, political scientists say: "So worth the elections, so much is a nation." What does that mean? Simply that voting is a citizen duty, a sovereign power of the people to say yes or no to those who claim or want to lead them. In the case of Gabon, on 27 August 2016, the majority of Gabonese clearly said no to corruption, no to the profiteers, not to state banditry, not to monarchy; but yes to a new experience, yes to the rule of law, yes to competence, yes to pluralism etc... Not only did Ali Bongo rob th…